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Avanti!

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Avanti!
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NR,2hrs 23min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1972
Director:
Billy Wilder
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill  ...more
Synopsis: This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn into a series of seemingly hopeless but humorous situations as in Lemmon's The Out-of -Towners two years earlier. Lemmon is Wendell Armbruster Jr., an overbearing American business tycoon forced to travel to the beautiful Italian island of Ischia to claim the body of his recently departed father. What begins with a rather elementary premise evolves into a succession of somber ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Overlooked and underrated, Avanti! may be late Billy Wilder, but it still sports his inimitable touch (even with the uncharacteristically salty language and nudity). Scripted by Wilder and longtime collaborator I.A.L. Diamond, Avanti! covers familiar Wilder/Diamond comic territory with its story of uptight rich American Jack Lemmon finding more than he bargained for, particularly in the person of overripe ... Full Review
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Jack Lemmon
Wendell Armbruster
Juliet Mills
Pamela Pigott
Clive Revill
Carlo Carlucci
Edward Andrews
J.J. Blodgett
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